shaggymc

That right there makes me sad.

Don't mean to hijack the thread, but I am curious as to how long it takes AT&T to light up the fiber. The subcontractor came through early last month and tore up the yards in the neighborhood running fiber. I would have thought at least one AT&T van would have been seen working the area since then.

I like most people are waiting for fiber so I can ditch Cox.

One other question, I know my neighbor across the street got one of the in-ground boxes dropped in her backyard. On my side of the street, I have the green Cox tube and a neighbor behind me has the green AT&T cube but not the in-ground box. I looked at the neighbors on each side of our houses and they don't have one either. How many houses do one of those boxes support?

Thanks

Have you thought about rolling your own OpenVPN server to connect to your parent's computer instead of VNC?

I had a similar VNC incident about 15 years ago. Luckily for me everything on that box was backed up to an external drive at the time.

I only use two or three public indexers for the material, and only the TV Shows and Movie categories. They filter out that sick crap for me. Together with Sonarr, CouchPotato, and SABnzbd, it works wonders.

I had a similar viewpoint to yours regarding payment. But when I was trying to figure out how to mask my activity so Cox doesn't flag me, it was pay for a decent VPN or get Usenet access. I pay $40/year for Usenet the same that I would pay for a VPN.